Clint Wright, MD, MS, FAAN, FAHA
Associate Director for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and Director of the Division of Clinical Research.
Talk Title: NINDS Perspectives on Postmortem Imaging and Neuropathology
Julie A. Schneider, MD, MS
Role: Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Presidential Chair and Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University.
Talk Title: Integrating Pathology and Imaging toward advances in Hippocampal Sclerosis of Aging
Thomas M. Wisniewski, MD
Role: Director of Pearl I. Barlow Center for Memory Evaluation and Treatment. Conference Chair of 2026 Postmortem Research in Dementia Workshop.
Talk Title: Early Neuropathological Markers of AD/ADRD
Yulin Ge, MD
Role: Professor of Radiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Conference Chair of 2026 Postmortem Research in Dementia Workshop.
Talk Title: Choroid plexus imaging and histopathology in aging & dementia
Laura E. Jonkman, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam University Medical Center
Talk Title: Best of both worlds: combining neuroimaging and neuropathology in AD and related dementias.
Andre van der Kouwe, PhD
Associate Professor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: Ultra-High Resolution Ex Vivo MRI: The 100 μm Dataset in Aging and Dementia
Andrew F. Teich, MD, PhD
Director of the New York Brain Bank and Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in Neurology).
Talk Title: Subtyping and co-pathology in Alzheimer’s disease: insights from autopsy studies
C. Dirk Keene, MD, PhD
Chair of the Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego
Talk Title: Advanced histology staining and brain tissue processing and analysis techniques including proteomics
Michael Zeineh, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology (Neuroimaging and Neurointervention) at Stanford University
Talk Title: "Precise MRI-SLI-histology coregistration of paraffin-embedded tissue"
Hanzhang Lu, PhD
Director of the MR Service Center and chief of the neurofunction section in the research division at Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: "An overview of in vivo imaging biomarkers of VCID"
Michael I. Miller, PhD
Bessie Darling Massey Professor and Director of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
Tentative Talk Title: "Postmortem MRI and Digital Pathology"
Susie Huang, MD, PhDAssociate Director of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: "Mesoscale diffusion MRI of human brain on Connectome 2.0: Bridging in vivo imaging, ex vivo MRI, and neuropathology in dementia"
Jiangyang Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Tentative Talk Title: "Postmortem MRI Signal: Influence of PMI, Fixation and Rehydration"
Jean Augustinack, PhD
Associate Professor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: "Tau vulnerability and its proximity to vasculature, linking histology and imaging"
Beatrix M. Ueberheide, PhD
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and Neurology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Talk Title: "Advancing the Proteomic Toolkit: Mass Spectrometry-Based Approaches for the Study of Neurodegeneration"
James C. Gee, PhD
Director, Penn Image Computing and Science Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: "Implicit Optimization Enhances Feature Learning for Multimodal and Multiscale Deformable Registration"
John F. Crary, MD, PhD
Founding Director of the Neuropathology Brain Bank and Research CoRE at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Talk Title: "Mechanisms of tauopathy & brain aging: novel approaches in the age of AI & brain organoids"
Adam M. Brickman, PhD
Professor of Neuropsychology, Columbia University
Tentative Talk Title: "White matter lesion heterogeneity: What Is established and what remains unclear"
Jennifer A. Frontera, MD
Professor of Neurology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Tentative Talk Title: "Neuropathology of COVID-19"
Rachel Bennett, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: "Vascular Remodeling in Tauopathies"
Valentina Perosa, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: "Relationship between Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Proteinopathies in the Medial Temporal Lobe or Neuroimaging-pathological correlates of CAA"
Youssef Z. Wadghiri, PhD
Director, Preclinical Imaging (PCI) Laboratory, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Talk Title: "From Whole Organ to Cellular Detail: Hardware Innovation and In-House Design for Multiscale MR Microscopy"
Yi Wang, PhD
Director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine
Talk Title: "QSM study of tissue magnetism changes associated with dementia"
Konstantinos Arfanakis, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Co-Leader of the Neuroimaging Core, the Alzheimer's Disease Center
Talk Title: "Integrating multimodal postmortem and antemortem MRI features to detect LATE-NC in-vivo"
Claudia Lenz, PhD
Lecturer in Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel
Talk Title: "From biophysics to bias: How temperature, PMI, and fixation shape postmortem MRI"
Paul A. Yushkevich, PhD
Professor of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: "MRI-Guided Histology for Postmortem MRI-Pathology Studies in Alzheimer's Disease"
Carlos Faraco, PhD
Program Officer at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), Division of Clinical Research (DCR)
Tentative Talk Title: "NIH AD/ADRD Initiatives"
Julia Kofler, MD
Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh
Tentative Talk Title: "ARIA Pathology"